>> Sanjiv Bhatt is a former Indian Police Service officer of the Gujarat-cadre. He is known for his role in filing an affidavit in the Supreme Court of India against (the current PM of India), then Chief Minister of the Government of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, concerning Modi's alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots. [1]
>> In 2015, Bhatt was removed from the police service, on the grounds of "unauthorised absence". [1]
>> On 20 June 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court of Jamnagar District in the state of Gujarat in a 1990 custodial death case.[1]
>> "They have been investigating the case for 15 months but have not been able to unearth even a single rupee of illegal money. So much time and so many resources have been expended but they haven't been able to prove anything. This is just a political vendetta. The BJP knows it is losing," he said. [1]
I have backed everything with sources in my posts? Can you point out if anything is not correct? Or do you have a general issue when something is said against ruling party?
If you really care about reputation of India, how about advising someone in BJP to prevent this type of things from happening at first place?
>> He oversaw the downfall of the freest of wins in world politics anywhere.
BJP under Modi-Shah lost 8 states, 218 by-elections in last two years [1]
Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh are the two states where the BJP has lost to Congress in the last six months. The BJP lost deposits in 38.4% of the seats it contested in Southern Karnataka. [2] [3]
Modi was the face of election campaign and spent whole centre government money and machinery to campaign. Modi speaks a script written by someone else by using a teleprompter and has never given an open & live unscripted press conference in last 8 years ([4] [5] [6]). By your logic, are you trying to say Modi is also incompetent?
>> The exact line you quoted, literally ends with an "if at all" in brackets right after.
Got it. So you are hoping some day China will transition to democracy AFTER industrialization had been achieved, and you think India might need to convert to an authoritarian state in order to successfully escaped poverty? Is my understanding correct?
Also, you haven's still answered my 2 questions:
1. How is "The ban on crop burning (main cause of Delhi's pollution) was central to the farm bill."?
2. What do you mean about this: "We do not vote for Presidents in India. The president was selected by the ruling party"?
Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha are Indian journalists and the co-founders of Alt News, an Indian non-profit fact-checking website. They were nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. They have fact checked the claims from all political parties. [1]
>> Zubair was arrested and incarcerated by the Delhi Police for a month. His detention raised further concerns about the state of India's press freedom under Narendra Modi's premiership and was widely criticized by journalistic bodies, human rights organizations and the political opposition who allege that the arrest was an act of revenge against his role in Alt News' work of combating disinformation.[1]
1. BJP still control most of the mainstream media.
2. BJP has in past offered plum post retirement positions to judges after they delivered some controversial decisions in favour of BJP.
3. BJP has full control on Election commission, and the electronic voting machines. Despite multiple reposts of voting machines found in cars of BJP candidates, or videos of faulty machines showing votes in favour of BJP, and despite calls for letting opposition parties inspect machines, Election commission has never let them inspect the machines.
4. A large number of bigots are in various positions in various administrative services and in recent years they have started showing their hate in open.
I am playing a role that any well functioning journalist should play. Question the government and point out any wrong doings. Isn't is a core aspect of democracy? Do you see anything wrong in that?
>> All indian political parties are low quality trash in their own ways.
Agree. But the one having power currently is the focus. Be it any party.
As per govt, out of 140 crore Indians, 80 crore rely on government for free food. That is 57% of Indians need government help for free food. [1]
If You Earn Rs 25,000 (USD 300) Per Month, You're Among India's Top 10% Income Earners [2]
>> I travel to India once or twice a year for both pleasure and business. I can only tell you what I feel and see.
You may be able to travel to India and got 1 USD converted to INR 80, then may be its a win for you, but not for other Indians. I am not sure, but you might have been able to afford somewhat better way to travel/stay/eat than most of the Indians can. So what you feel and see might not be closer to reality for most of Indians.
>> I see incredible infrastructure changes...
So if a few private companies own most of India's infra, and building shopping malls, or if few politically connected builders building high rise buildings, or if roads/flyovers being built by private companies for which public will pay toll through their noses for years to come, then in my humble opinion, this is is not real development that you should give credit to the government. This is indeed the failure of the government.
>> Tons of airports being built and improved.
Government did sell a number of already built airports to Adani. Now Adani may make it a shiny new airpot and start charging fees for everything in airport but I don't see it as an achievement of Government. [3]
>> The West is so pristine it doesn't arrest protesters at all. Nor do Government agencies kill people randomly. Nor does it indulge in assassinations...
Looks like you are trying to respond to be without understanding the topic first and your above comment does not relate.
My reply was to this comment which said:
1. "The ban on crop burning (main cause of Delhi's pollution) was central to the farm bill"
2. "We do not vote for Presidents in India. The president was selected by the ruling party"
Can you please let me know how any of above 2 statements are correct?
Also, to your other comment:
>> There's a reason why Meta, Google and Aramco want to pour money into the country.
Companies like Meta, Google and Aramco invest and try to invest in all the counties for their own growth. This is also to target the huge population of India. These companies also invested in China, that does not make China any better. Can you please share a source for "infrastructure growth and economic policies have caught pace"?
>> Take the World Happiness Index 2023 which ranked India lower than Pakistan ...
May be World Happiness Index 2023 data is bit flawed. But I don't think that means whole world is sharing propaganda against India.
>> Heck we get 100Mbps-1Gbps unlimited internet connectivity anywhere in India at the lowest rates possible in the entire World.
How is it an achievement of Government while this was done by private companies like Reliance at the cost of public owned BSNL? Government actually let the loss of public tax payers money by giving favourable treatment to private companies.
Modi and his fans always talk about low prices of internet in India, while its a failure of government to control Reliance where Reliance is using money raised from state bank to give dirt cheap internet connection to public and killing the competition. They have already started raising the prices now that several competitors are gone. [1]
Reliance raises money from public banks, Reliance uses that money to get tower network of public owned BSNL, Reliance gets priority over BSNL to launch 4G, Reliance is in profit while BSNL is in loss, Government employee phone connections are transferred from BSNL to private entity Reliance. [2] [3] [4]
>> I don't need some stupid organization in the West to tell me I am more unhappy than these countries.
Why care about other stupid organizations while you have "Whatsapp university" to keep us informed. [5]
>> In 2015, Bhatt was removed from the police service, on the grounds of "unauthorised absence". [1]
>> On 20 June 2019, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Sessions Court of Jamnagar District in the state of Gujarat in a 1990 custodial death case.[1]
Bhatt is in Jail since his arrest without bail.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjiv_Bhatt